Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk
Written by Ben Carson, M.D. and Gregg Lewis
Narrated by Ben Carson
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About this audiobook
By avoiding risk, are you also avoiding your life's full potential? Join acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson as he explores the life-changing power of taking the risk, even if you're afraid.
In our risk-avoidant culture, we place a high premium on safety. We insure our vacations. We check crash tests on cars. We extend the warranties on our appliances. But by insulating ourselves from the unknown--the natural risks of life--we miss the great adventure of living our lives to their fullest potential.
Dr. Ben Carson spent his childhood as an at-risk child on the streets of Detroit, and he took big risks in performing complex surgeries on the brain and the spinal cord. Now, offering inspiring personal examples, Dr. Carson invites us to embrace risk in our own lives.
In Take the Risk, Dr. Carson examines our safety-at-all-costs culture and the meaning of risk and security in our lives. Take the Risk guides you through an extensive examination of risk, including:
- Risk-taking in history
- An assessment of the real costs and rewards of risk
- Learning how to assess and accept risks
- Understanding how risk reveals the purpose of your life
From a man whose life dramatically portrays the connection between great risks and greater successes, the insights Dr. Carson shares in Take the Risk will help you dispel your fear of risk in order to dream big, aim high, move with confidence, and reap the rewards of wise risk-taking.
Praise for Take the Risk:
"Whether you are a world-renowned neurosurgeon, a CEO, or a teacher, this book applies to anyone who ever wondered about the difference between the pacesetters and those who struggle to keep up. It is the pacesetters who Take the Risk, and this book explains when and why to take risks to empower everyone to become a trailblazer rather than a mere spectator. For anyone who wants to rise above mediocrity, this book is a must-read."
--Armstrong Williams, author and radio host, The Armstrong Williams Show
Ben Carson, M.D.
El Dr. Benjamin Carson es profesor de neurocirugía, cirugía plástica, oncología y pediatría, y director de neurocirugía pediátrica en las Instituciones Medicas John Hopkins. También es autor de tres libros, éxitos de ventas: Gifted Hands. Piense en grande, y The Big Picture. Sirve en las juntas directivas de Kellogg Company , Costo, Wholesale Corp y American Promise, entre otras, y es Miembro Emérito de la Yale Corporación. El y su esposa Candy son padres de tres hijos adultos y viven en el condado de Baltimore, Maryland.
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Reviews for Take the Risk
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thoroughly enjoyed, insight into Dr. Carson's professional journey and the sharing of such wonderful life moments of "risk". Good take aways for simple application.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book and even better person. Some things you would think make perfect since but the world just does not see it. Great simple steps to use the amazing gift of a brain.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I admire Dr. Carson's journey who grew up with less in life, to one of the most respected person in the medical profession who also become a well known speaker and author of several books on personal development.